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Tara-Nicholle Nelson

Tara-Nicholle Nelson is a Real Estate Broker, Attorney and Accredited Buyer’s Representative. She is the Founder and Chief Visionary of www.REThinkRealEstate.com, the savvy woman’s real estate resource.  more...

David Fletcher

David Fletcher is an experienced mentor/trainer for condominium and new-homes and existing-home sales, and is a licensed real estate broker who has sold more than $3 billion worth of real estate during his 30-year real estate career. He is founder of ementoru.com, an online catalog of prerecorded video and audio field-tested sales and listing solutions. He blogs about new homes sales solutions at newhomesniche.com.  more...

Lou Barnes

After five years as Marketing Manager of a mountaineering clothing and equipment manufacturer and retailer (a great way to enjoy your 20s), Lou Barnes built 45-broker, two-office Spruce Real Estate in Colorado from 1978-83, spending most of his time guiding the firm through extremely high interest rates. The world of money was more fun for him than real estate, and Barnes sold Spruce and joined investment banking ranks for five years as Managing Partner of RCM Government Securities, a broker-dealer working on the early flow of mortgages to Wall Street and their related derivatives.  more...

Ken Harney

Kenneth Harney writes a nationally syndicated column, "The Nation's Housing," and has received numerous professional awards, including multiple Best Column awards from the National Association of Real Estate Editors, and the Consumer Federation of America's Consumer Media Service Award for "invaluable and unique contributions to the advancement of consumer housing interests." Harney's columns are closely read on Capitol Hill and by federal regulators. Several have led directly to changes in federal law.  more...

Stephen Fishman

Stephen Fishman received his law degree in 1979 from the University of Southern California. He has worked in private practice, specializing in small business, tax and intellectual property law. He also served as a deputy commissioner with the California Department of Real Estate in the 1980s -- a particularly exciting time for the real estate industry. He is the author of 18 books published by Nolo Press.  more...

Jack Guttentag

He is Jack M. Guttentag, now Professor of Finance Emeritus, formerly Jacob Safra Professor of International Banking, at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Earlier he was Chief of the Domestic Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, on the senior staff of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and managing editor of both the Journal of Finance (1974-77) and the Housing Finance Review (1983-89).  more...

Alisha Alway Braatz

Alisha Alway Braatz is a buyer's broker with Coldwell Banker Advantage One Properties in Eugene, Ore. She graduated from Pepperdine University with a degree in Advertising and Creative Writing. She really, really wanted to have Miami Herald humor columnist Dave Barry's job, but apparently there were already too many journalists writing about exploding squirrels. While that job was taken, she still mixes humor into her columns -- she has performed as a comedian and wrote a weekly humor column in the real estate section of her hometown newspaper in Bend, Ore.  more...

Tom Flanagan

Tom Flanagan is director of information technology at Residential Properties Ltd., a real estate brokerage in Providence, R.I. Founded in 1981, the company has five offices and 160 sales associates. A graduate of the New England Institute of Technology, Tom has a wide range of knowledge in technology, online platforms and new media, with emphasis on design and usability. Tom has been a speaker at both local and national events, covering such topics as social media, branding and usability.  more...

Janet Portman

Janet Portman, author, attorney, and nationally recognized specialist in landlord/tenant law, is managing editor at Nolo, the nation’s recognized leader in providing legal information for consumers and small businesses.

Portman oversees editorial work on all Nolo books and software. She is the author or co-author of Every Landlord's Legal Guide, Every Tenant's Legal Guide, and LeaseWriter Plus software, plus six other books, all published by Nolo.  more...

Dian Hymer

Dian Hymer has been a top-producing and award-winning real estate agent in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than 30 years. She is a licensed real estate broker and a Certified Residential Specialist. She has represented home buyers and sellers in more than 500 real estate transactions.

Her nationally syndicated real estate advice column, "House Hunting," appears regularly in newspapers, including the Oakland Tribune, the Sacramento Bee, the Chicago Sun Times, the Denver Post, the Herald Mail and the Houston Chronicle, as well as on Internet sites.  more...

Benny Kass

Benny Kass is a practicing attorney in Washington, DC and in Maryland and is senior member of Kass, Mitek & Kass, PLLC. He has a degree from Northwestern Medill School of Journalism, a law degree from the University of Michigan Law School, and a Masters in Law from George Washington University Law School.  more...

Paul Bianchina

For over 30 years, Paul Bianchina has been combining his two loves, building and writing. Contractor, author, and nationally syndicated columnist, Paul provides his readers with practical home improvement advice that’s written in a clear and easy to understand style.  more...

Robert Griswold

Mr. Griswold is the author of the best selling book in the world on property management - Property Management for Dummies which has sold over 75,000 copies and has been adapted to many countries from Great Britain to China. He is the co-author with Eric Tyson of Real Estate Investing for Dummies which is also the top seller in its category since it was published in late 2004.  more...

Barry Stone

Barry Stone began his career in 1969 overseeing and partaking in the building and design aspects of residential construction projects. In 1978, having received his general contractor's license, Barry ventured into his own construction and remodeling business. During this time, his exposure to indiscriminate violations and loose interpretations of the Uniform Building Code by tradespersons and contractors heightened his awareness of the vulnerability of consumers in these areas.  more...

Bernice Ross

Nationally syndicated columnist, author, trainer, and speaker, Bernice Ross couples her expertise as a Master Certified Coach with 30 years of real estate sales experience. From 1993 to 1997, she served as Executive Director of Training for the 4,000 agent Prudential Jon Douglas Company.  more...

Arrol Gellner

Arrol Gellner is a practicing architect with 30 years' experience in residential and commercial architecture. He is a graduate of the College of Environmental Design at the University of California at Berkeley.

Gellner's column, Architext, appears in newspapers nationwide, include the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle.

Gellner is the author of several books on historic architecture. He is also a frequent speaker on design subjects, and has served on panels with some of California's most distinguished architects.  more...

Bill and Kevin Burnett

Bill Burnett, 52, lives in Oakland, California and works at the San Francisco Chronicle where he is assistant real estate editor. Along with other duties, he writes about renovation and remodeling. In 2002 his column, "Sweat Equity," was judged best in the nation by the National Association of Real Estate Editors.

Bill bought his first house for $12,000 in 1974 in Spokane, Washington. Since then he has bought, renovated and eventually sold a half-dozen others. He is currently working on plans to build an 800-square-foot in-law addition to a home he owns in Boise, Idaho.  more...

Kris Berg

Kris Berg is an 11-year real estate veteran who, along with husband and partner Steve, is broker-owner of San Diego Castles Realty. She blogs at SanDiegoHomeBlog.com.

Teresa Boardman

Teresa Boardman is a Realtor for Saint Paul Home Realty in St. Paul, Minn. She blogs at StPaulRealEstateBlog.com and she is an avid photographer -- her blog displays thousands of her photos.

Steve Bergsman

Steve Bergsman is among the top writers on the subject of real estate, property financing and real estate investing. For more than 25 years he has contributed to a wide range of magazines, newspapers and wire services around the world.  more...

Mary Umberger

Mary Umberger is an independent journalist who has covered real estate since 1995. In her long career at the Chicago Tribune she has covered every aspect of the housing market, from the basic how-to-buy-a-home story to an exploration of the trials and travails at Fannie Mae. She continues to write a column (that has won the National Association of Real Estate Editors' prize for Best Column three times) for the Tribune. For more than six years, she has broadcast "Real Estate Minute" segments on Chicago radio stations.  more...

Gahlord Dewald

Gahlord Dewald is a data-driven Web strategist focusing on platform-agnostic tools and techniques that allow his clients to optimize their conversion funnels through ongoing activities across the stages of the consumer life-cycle model.  more...

Tom Kelly

As author, nationally syndicated newspaper columnist and talk-show host, Tom Kelly has carved a niche as one of the leading journalists specializing in second homes. His ground-breaking book, How a Second Home Can Be Your Best Investment (McGraw-Hill, written with economist John Tuccillo) showed consumers and professionals how one additional piece of real estate could serve as an investment, recreation and retirement property over time.  more...

Robert Bruss

Nationally syndicated real estate columnist Robert "Bob" Bruss, who passed away on Sept. 26, 2007, for 23 years wrote the weekly syndicated "Real Estate Mailbag" Q&A real estate column, the "Real Estate Notebook" feature on real estate trends, "Real Estate Law and You" about recent court decisions affecting real estate and "Real Estate Book Review" features.

As a tribute to Bruss, Inman News is republishing some of his work -- which still holds value in today's market -- in an ongoing "Best of Bob Bruss" series.  more...